shit!! mouse IN my kitchen, IN my shopping bag! eww/eeeeeeeeek!!

[harmonicon]

Damn it! I just moved into this house last week, and there are mice?!?! Also, I think the mouse is stuck in the bag and can't get out, but I don't want to get too close to it, because I don't know if it'll bite me and give me the plague. FUCK

[Hawkeye-X]

1. take the bag outside and let it out.. or take the shopping bag

to the countryside and release the mouse.

That's about the best way to NOT to kill the mouse..

Oh yeah, and call the OSHA folks and file a complaint where you shopped...

[Inchworm]

2. hitchhiker?

no worries. You got cats?

:hug:

[harmonicon]

8. not a hitchhiker

There wasn't any food in the bag, just a receipt and another bag. I'm a little creeped out now though, because they're clothe bags that I shop with every week and put raw vegetables and stuff in. Now I'm going to get the plague or mouse aids if I use them again. I can't wash them, because I'm still waiting to have a washing machine installed in here.

I wish I had cats.... maybe I'll see if one of my friends can bring their cats for a sleep-over.

[Inchworm]

10. it ain't so bad

I never close my doors until the furnace comes on.

Every fall we get a family that makes it past the dogs. Start now and you can get them out of your house fast. It is cooler to be free outside.

Live-traps and release a gazillion miles away, or snap, dead traps. Both are ok with me.. they breed like.. mice.

:hug:

[juajen]

19. Before washingl machines, there were, voila, hands and soap.

LOL Sorry about you wee mousie. I have seven cats, so never worry about those little mousies, or big ones either.

[Kali]

3. It will get out soon enough if you don't do something

I have no tolerance for mice so I would kill it, but if you are soft take it somewhere outdoors and let it go (it will likely die anyway but your guilt can be removed) and hope it doesn't get back in (which it will unless you take it far - and the bad news it there are liable to be more).

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Stick him in your hair, you should cook up a storm

/Ratoullie

[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. It's a mouse!

It's smaller than you. Pick up the bag by the handle and throw it outside gently. Then usher it out. They can cure the bubonic Plague now. Jeez.
Duckie

[harmonicon]

6. damn... I wish I'd thought of that

though that is how I thought it could/would bite me. It got out on it's own, so now it's in my house, and it's going to get me in my sleep.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. Just make sure your blankets aren't on the floor...

...oh, wait! They can jump!
Sleep well! :evilgrin:
Duckie

[harmonicon]

13. my blankets are on the floor!

My mattress is on the floor!! :(

[texanwitch]

7. We had two mice in the house, or did.

I haven't seen them for awhile, hoping my young cat found them.

[Elidor]

11. He's probably far more scared of you than you are of him

A mouse, while highly annoying, is not too big a deal. Rats...now there's a whole other story. I lived one place where I barricaded the door at night, like a bad scene out of Escape From New York.

You need a humane trap. The sooner the better. You don't want a dead mouse tucked away in some corner for a week.

[harmonicon]

12. I hope it wasn't a rat

I could see it jumping, trying to get out of the bag, and it was just a sort of black blur. It didn't look big enough to be a rat, but not tiny either. It's them being annoying that bothers me most. One apartment that I lived in, they drove me so crazy that one night I went and slept at a friend's house in the middle of the night - I couldn't sleep with the noise they were making. I spent the next two days mouse-proofing the place, and they never came back. The thing is, I can't imagine how they got in here. I guess I haven't hunted around to try to find holes, but there isn't any way in that's immediately apparent. Possible zombie defenses in this place are pretty good too.

[hippywife]

14. Howlong have you lived

in your new place? It could have come along in one of your moving boxes. It's not going to bother you. Really. It's more afraid of you. Just get a humane trap, as others have suggested and then release it.

Good luck. :hi:

[harmonicon]

15. I've been here for less than a week

There weren't any moving boxes, because this is next door to where I used to live, but there weren't any nice there, though I did once see one outside. I think I just need a trash can with a lid, but if I see them again, it'll be time for live traps. I would think that the restaurant across the street would be a better target and have well-stocked dumpsters. I am a little worried, because the house on the other side of me (they're like town houses - no actual space between them) has been vacant for at least a year. The mice may have been hanging out there, just waiting for me and my goodies to move in.

[hippywife]

16. Sounds like you have

mouse lures all around you. Both the restaurant dumpsters and the vacant townhouse will draw them and worse.

[harmonicon]

17. yeah...

No one really lived in this place for some time before I moved in either. Since I was next door and didn't have any problems there, I would have thought this place would be ok. I hope I haven't made a mistake.

[BlueJazz]

18. Wait until it's Mother finds out you were mean to the little mousie...

[Lethe]

20. mice are cute

and they are really smart.

[Biscottiii]

21. One remedy another poster told me once. Bounce dryer fabric sheets

If you go looking around for access points, like pipes under the sink that might not be totally sealed, then stuff the Bounce stinky type sheets around them to fill the space. Told my Sister and she said it worked. Other people said steel wool, but that didn't help her. Might be time to get a kittah. Good luck!

[harmonicon]

22. thanks for the tip

I still can't find where they could get in, but when I do, I'll do a number on it. Wily little bastards. The trash can in the kitchen is a sort of mesh thing, and they were able to chew through the trash bag in there last night, but I don't think they actually got to the trash. I hope they gave up, but I somehow doubt it.

[hobbit709]

23. Get broom, whack bag, put bag in trash-problem solved.

[NJmaverick]

24. technically the plague was carried by the fleas on the rodents not the rodents

plus they can cure the plague, these days.:evilgrin:

Seriously, that sucks sorry mice are not good.